This is a beautiful, detailed collection of illustrations from vintage children's periodicals. I loved the seasonal decorations. There is even one for May day! These pictures are perfect for illustrating memory albums. Lots of fairy pictures, the entire book has a magical quality!

This brief booklet (only 16 pages) offers comforting insights and information about the feelings that are often experienced by parents after the death of a child. Joy and Marv are very caring people and it shows in their written words.

This volume consists of articles on children's folklore. The book provides various ways of studying the games, songs, rhymes, and other forms of folk culture that children express. It is an excellent resource for learning to understand ways that children's culture leads insight into the worldview of children. I also am impressed with the ways that the study of children's culture leads one to think about common and implicit aspects of adults' culture that form important ways of thinking about life -- but need to be critically examined. This volume should interest anyone who is curious about kids, but it is also academically-oriented and scholarly.

I LIVE 8 MILES FROM THE FORMER MILITARY OUT POST. AND HERE'S MY REVIEW ON MRS. JOHNSON'S BOOK;

GREAT BOOK WITHMANY HISTORICAL FACTS OF THE FORT FORMERLY KNOWN AS FT. WADSWORTH. THE BOOK SHOWS IT IN THE WAY IT WAS. I LEARNED THAT W. B. BOYD, THE FOUNDER OF THE BOYSCOUTS OF AMERICA CAME AND HUNTED IN THE FT. SISSETON VACINITY. I LOVE THE FORT. IT REALLY SHOWS NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA'S RICH BACKGROUND.

When she was in the third grade my older sister bought a little book of christmas stories with the nickles she had saved by not having milk at break time. "Christmas Every Day" is our favorite story from this carefully preserved little book. Our mother still reads "Christmas Every Day" every year for her grandchildren. Though we are all grown we still enjoy the story too. Even my oldest sister's hyper-active 7 year old sit's quietly for his grandma's reading of "Christmas Every Day."

It was a great relief for me to find that Amazon.com had "Christmas Every Day" because the little book my sister brought home in the early 1960's is quickly becoming too fragile to handle. Thanks Amazon.com, someday I hope to read "Christmas Every Day" to my grandchildren.

I have collected ornaments for years and buy every book I can find on the subject. A collector will value the information and price guide that the author has compiled but the photos will be worth purchasing this book. You just won't find that many different types in one book! Highly recommended!

Beautiful illustrations to go hand and hand with a great Christmas poem. This book is a favorite in our home. You will love it! It is a perfect length for children.

This is a wonderful book that deals with the reality of death in a teenage world. I first read this book in high school and really liked how it dealt with the loss of a loved one that was a boyfriend. Most books have pretty happy endings or are not very realistic. Almost like the world is perfect. This book proves it is not a perfect world. I was surprised at the dramatic events but pleased with the outcome. Christy is a good roll model for other teens and her story will touch the hearts of many people who read it. I recommend this book to anyone who likes drama and suprise but not always perfect endings.

Provides a key to information on the Chumash Indians of California from the account of Cabrillo's visit in 1542 to the latest publications in 1998. The over 1,250 annotated entries offer comprehensive coverage of the traditional fields of anthropology--ethnology, linguistics, archaeology, and physical anthropology--as well as Chumash rock art, early accounts, educational and juvenile materials, and book reviews. Three indexes, author, subject, and archaeological site number, provide easy access to all refereces. This is a first-source for the researcher looking for archaeological reports or dissertations; for linguistic studies, grammars and dictionaries; for the ethnographer interested in Chumash healing, rites and ceremonies, or political, social, and economic systems; and for the teacher who needs information or activities for the classroom.

As the world turns into a global entity, the United States has becomes a bona fide metropolitan nation. The 1990 census painted the picture of this accelerated pace of urbanization in striking numerical colors: Slightly more than 50 percent of us live in the 39 U.S. metropolitan areas with populations of more than a million people. By contrast,the mid-20th century census uncovered only 30 percent of the U.S. population living in 14 metro areas with million-plus populations.

But citistate realities don't just apply to the larger regions -- the New Yorks, Los Angeles, Chicagos, Bostons of America, the Berlins, Londons, Hong Kongs, Shanghais of the globe. All metropolitan regions face stiff competition and challenges. Include the United States' metro regions under 1 million people and the count exceeds 80 percent of the nation's people.

To put a human face on this fast-paced urbanization, three members of the Citistates Group -- Neal Peirce, Curtis Johnson and John Stuart Hall-- coined the new term "citistates." In their words, citistates are "not just the center city, but the entire metropolitan region - the 'real city' made up of center city, inner and outer suburbs, and rural hinterland so clearly and intimately interconnected in geography, environment, work force, and surely a shared economic and social future."

The transformation is apparent across the Atlantic, where Europeans have begun to describe their continent as a hodgepodge of powerful citistates -- from Manchester to Stuttgart, Lyon to London, Milan to Marseilles. Like U.S. citistates, these metropolitan regions are making economic and cultural transactions with little regard to their own nation-state governments.

The Citistates Group associates see a shift in thinking from the familiar governmental paradigm -- federal-state-local -- to one focused on function: global-regional-neighborhood.

* Global because critical issues have worldwide implications -- global warming, economic restructuring, rapid global market repercussions.

* Regional because the metropolitan areas, or citistates, share areawide transportation systems, media outlets, medical assistance, goods, services, even crime. Peirce argues that the success of the regional system -- on every measure from workforce preparedness to the quality of the infrastructure -- determines how competitive and successful the citistate will be for all its citizens in the long run.

* Neighborhood because it is on the personal, community level that escalating U.S. social problems can ultimately be dealt with.

Citistates includes six case studies based on Peirce Reports for the leading newspapers in Phoenix, Seattle, Baltimore, Dallas, St. Paul and Owensboro, Ky. These popularly written analyses examine each region's special problems and suggest potential solutions tailored to the local situation. The goal in each series is to identify ways out of a region's dilemmas by tapping civic energies -- forward-thinking talents and skills in business, civic, academic sectors -- to create a more sustainable citistate in the next century.

In his review of the book, George Knight, executive director of Neighborhood Reinvestment, took note of the role of neighborhoods in civic renewal. "Peirce gives full credit to community-based development organizations for revitalizing some of America's most devastated neighborhoods."

The book's wind-up chapter includes an 8-point formula for "citistate cohesiveness and strength." -- Craig Anthony Thomas, Senior Research Associate, The Citistates Group